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Buck's tomb is the curse — the stone that bears the foot, the 'murdered a woman' that's the charge.","The file keeps Buck's Tomb: the 1852 monument, the witch's curse, the leg stain, and the founder.","Buck's Tomb is the archive's Bucksport file — the cursed monument."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Buck's Tomb is the archive's Bucksport file — the witch's mark.","A monument keeps its stain — the file's suggestion being that the tomb's hold is the foot: the curse that was pronounced, the leg that appeared, and the scandal that's the legend."]}],"name":"Colonel Buck’s Tomb","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","LEGEND_SITE"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The witch’s curse on the founder’s monument—Bucksport’s legend.","full_desc":"A site in Bucksport, Maine, Colonel Buck’s Tomb is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The witch’s curse on the founder’s monument—Bucksport’s legend. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the witch. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. 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The site in Bucksport, Maine gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Colonel Buck’s Tomb'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The witch","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Colonel Buck’s Tomb","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%27s_tomb","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2805,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the tomb. Colonel Buck’s Tomb in Bucksport, Maine carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Colonel Buck’s Tomb","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%27s_tomb","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1852 monument and the legend are documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Colonel Buck’s Tomb' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1852","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Colonel Buck’s Tomb","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%27s_tomb","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The curse is documented folklore—the stain is real. The reports at Colonel Buck’s Tomb are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 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